James Rosbrook‐thompson
Biographic Data
| ID | 747841 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Rosbrook‐thompson |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosbrook‐thompson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMPSON J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Anglia Ruskin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3237-3368 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Integrated Through Risk: How Actuarial and Epidemiological Approaches to Urban Violence Reduction Interact Within a Multi-Agency Gangs Team
Despite the emergence of multi-agency initiatives that seek to integrate actuarial and epidemiological approaches to urban violence reduction, little work has compared and contrasted these approaches and considered the associated implications for their integration. This article begins addressing this research gap with findings from the first academic analysis of an Integrated Gangs Team (IGT) in the United Kingdom. Drawing on interviews with IGT …
Respectability and boundary making on a superdiverse housing estate: The cross-racial deployment of intra-ethnic stereotypes
This article examines how white British residents of a superdiverse London housing estate learn about-and subsequently deploy-the intra-ethnic stereotypes used by their British Pakistani and British Bangladeshi neighbours/flatmates. Building on recent attempts to bring together conviviality and boundary making, along with insights into intra-ethnic othering, we show how, for white British residents, these stereotypes offered the chance to add det…
The construction and understanding of mixed-race identities at a superdiverse youth football club: Hybridity, confusion and contra-fusion
Using the findings of two years' ethnographic fieldwork, the article examines the construction and understanding of mixed-race identities at a football club situated in a superdiverse area of London. It describes how the characteristics of superdiversity together with the dynamic between parents/guardians, children, coaches and scouts shape people's perceptions of the ethnic options available to mixed-race young people. I try to show how assertio…
Mixed-Occupancy Housing in London
Introduction: A Living Tapestry
Understanding Difference amid Superdiversity: Space, 'Race' and Granular Essentialisms at an Inner-City Football Club
Using the findings of ethnographic fieldwork conducted at an inner-city football club, the article examines the relationship between superdiversity and understandings of human variation. It is argued that club personnel relied on what I have termed 'granular essentialisms' to make sense of their superdiverse surroundings. These were assertions about ethnicity and 'race' that resulted from sustained engagement across various categories of differen…
Squashing the Beef’: Combatting Gang Violence and Reforming Masculinity in East London
The article draws on the findings of two years’ ethnographic fieldwork in exploring how gang activity in Newham, East London is combatted by faith-based organisation, Targeted Against Gangs (TAG). More specifically, the authors examine how TAG seeks to reform the identities of young male gang members according to the principles of what we have called ‘Pentecostal realist masculinity’. The characteristics of this reformed masculinity include an aw…
Football Hooliganism
Few phenomena in contemporary society have elicited such strong sentiments as that labeled “football hooliganism.” The disorder and violence that the phrase encapsulates has been studied, policed, and legislated against from a wide variety of starting points. In this entry the authors contend that the epiphenomena provoked by hooliganism are as worthy of academic inquiry as the “hooligans” themselves. The entry charts the history of football hool…
I’m local and foreign’: Belonging, the city and the case for denizenship
Those considering threats to the liberal-democratic model of citizenship which emanate ‘from below’ have naturally focused on migrants’ sentiments of belonging and the meaning they ascribe to citizenship – or substantive citizenship. Using the findings of two years’ ethnographic fieldwork, the article explores the modes of belonging of a group of first-, second- and third-generation migrants in central London. It is argued that a substantive noti…
Terrorizing defences: Sport in the Liberian civil conflict
The democratically elected President of Liberia was between 1997 and 2004 also the country's 'Chief Patron of Sport'. Enjoying tennis more than team games, the one-time President, Charles Taylor, realized that the electorate's enthusiasm for the game of football meant that the game could be a useful vehicle with which to associate. As well as funding the salaries of the national 'Lone Star' football team, Taylor also sponsored a football team in …
Fields and Visions: The ‘African Personality’ and Ghanaian Soccer
The concept of the "African Personality" was celebrated by the continent's first post-colonial President, Kwame Nkrumah. Sweeping to power in Ghana's first general election in 1951, Nkrumah and his Convention People's Party-inspired by Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. Du Bois-espoused the doctrines of nationhood and self-reliance. The conceptual dimensions of Nkrumah's "African Personality" and the role he had in mind for Association Football (soccer) …
Coming to America: Historical Ontologies and United States Soccer
In January 2007, English international soccer star David Beckham announced to a global media that he would be leaving the Spanish giants Real Madrid to join Major League Soccer's (MLS) Los Angeles Galaxy. MLS Commissioner Don Garber feted Beckham as a global sporting icon whose presence attested to America's gradual transformation into a ‘Soccer Nation.’ However, following LA Galaxy's acquisition, a debate surrounding soccer's previous failure to…
I’m local and foreign’: Belonging, the city and the case for denizenship
Those considering threats to the liberal-democratic model of citizenship which emanate ‘from below’ have naturally focused on migrants’ sentiments of belonging and the meaning they ascribe to citizenship – or substantive citizenship. Using the findings of two years’ ethnographic fieldwork, the article explores the modes of belonging of a group of first-, second- and third-generation migrants in central London. It is argued that a substantive noti…
Understanding Difference amid Superdiversity: Space, 'Race' and Granular Essentialisms at an Inner-City Football Club
Using the findings of ethnographic fieldwork conducted at an inner-city football club, the article examines the relationship between superdiversity and understandings of human variation. It is argued that club personnel relied on what I have termed 'granular essentialisms' to make sense of their superdiverse surroundings. These were assertions about ethnicity and 'race' that resulted from sustained engagement across various categories of differen…
Respectability and boundary making on a superdiverse housing estate: The cross-racial deployment of intra-ethnic stereotypes
This article examines how white British residents of a superdiverse London housing estate learn about-and subsequently deploy-the intra-ethnic stereotypes used by their British Pakistani and British Bangladeshi neighbours/flatmates. Building on recent attempts to bring together conviviality and boundary making, along with insights into intra-ethnic othering, we show how, for white British residents, these stereotypes offered the chance to add det…
The construction and understanding of mixed-race identities at a superdiverse youth football club: Hybridity, confusion and contra-fusion
Using the findings of two years' ethnographic fieldwork, the article examines the construction and understanding of mixed-race identities at a football club situated in a superdiverse area of London. It describes how the characteristics of superdiversity together with the dynamic between parents/guardians, children, coaches and scouts shape people's perceptions of the ethnic options available to mixed-race young people. I try to show how assertio…
Fields and Visions: The ‘African Personality’ and Ghanaian Soccer
The concept of the "African Personality" was celebrated by the continent's first post-colonial President, Kwame Nkrumah. Sweeping to power in Ghana's first general election in 1951, Nkrumah and his Convention People's Party-inspired by Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. Du Bois-espoused the doctrines of nationhood and self-reliance. The conceptual dimensions of Nkrumah's "African Personality" and the role he had in mind for Association Football (soccer) …
Terrorizing defences: Sport in the Liberian civil conflict
The democratically elected President of Liberia was between 1997 and 2004 also the country's 'Chief Patron of Sport'. Enjoying tennis more than team games, the one-time President, Charles Taylor, realized that the electorate's enthusiasm for the game of football meant that the game could be a useful vehicle with which to associate. As well as funding the salaries of the national 'Lone Star' football team, Taylor also sponsored a football team in …
Coming to America: Historical Ontologies and United States Soccer
In January 2007, English international soccer star David Beckham announced to a global media that he would be leaving the Spanish giants Real Madrid to join Major League Soccer's (MLS) Los Angeles Galaxy. MLS Commissioner Don Garber feted Beckham as a global sporting icon whose presence attested to America's gradual transformation into a ‘Soccer Nation.’ However, following LA Galaxy's acquisition, a debate surrounding soccer's previous failure to…
Terrorizing defences: Sport in the Liberian civil conflict
The democratically elected President of Liberia was between 1997 and 2004 also the country's 'Chief Patron of Sport'. Enjoying tennis more than team games, the one-time President, Charles Taylor, realized that the electorate's enthusiasm for the game of football meant that the game could be a useful vehicle with which to associate. As well as funding the salaries of the national 'Lone Star' football team, Taylor also sponsored a football team in …
Fields and Visions: The ‘African Personality’ and Ghanaian Soccer
The concept of the "African Personality" was celebrated by the continent's first post-colonial President, Kwame Nkrumah. Sweeping to power in Ghana's first general election in 1951, Nkrumah and his Convention People's Party-inspired by Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. Du Bois-espoused the doctrines of nationhood and self-reliance. The conceptual dimensions of Nkrumah's "African Personality" and the role he had in mind for Association Football (soccer) …
Football Hooliganism
Few phenomena in contemporary society have elicited such strong sentiments as that labeled “football hooliganism.” The disorder and violence that the phrase encapsulates has been studied, policed, and legislated against from a wide variety of starting points. In this entry the authors contend that the epiphenomena provoked by hooliganism are as worthy of academic inquiry as the “hooligans” themselves. The entry charts the history of football hool…
I’m local and foreign’: Belonging, the city and the case for denizenship
Those considering threats to the liberal-democratic model of citizenship which emanate ‘from below’ have naturally focused on migrants’ sentiments of belonging and the meaning they ascribe to citizenship – or substantive citizenship. Using the findings of two years’ ethnographic fieldwork, the article explores the modes of belonging of a group of first-, second- and third-generation migrants in central London. It is argued that a substantive noti…
Squashing the Beef’: Combatting Gang Violence and Reforming Masculinity in East London
The article draws on the findings of two years’ ethnographic fieldwork in exploring how gang activity in Newham, East London is combatted by faith-based organisation, Targeted Against Gangs (TAG). More specifically, the authors examine how TAG seeks to reform the identities of young male gang members according to the principles of what we have called ‘Pentecostal realist masculinity’. The characteristics of this reformed masculinity include an aw…
Mixed-Occupancy Housing in London
Introduction: A Living Tapestry
Understanding Difference amid Superdiversity: Space, 'Race' and Granular Essentialisms at an Inner-City Football Club
Using the findings of ethnographic fieldwork conducted at an inner-city football club, the article examines the relationship between superdiversity and understandings of human variation. It is argued that club personnel relied on what I have termed 'granular essentialisms' to make sense of their superdiverse surroundings. These were assertions about ethnicity and 'race' that resulted from sustained engagement across various categories of differen…
The construction and understanding of mixed-race identities at a superdiverse youth football club: Hybridity, confusion and contra-fusion
Using the findings of two years' ethnographic fieldwork, the article examines the construction and understanding of mixed-race identities at a football club situated in a superdiverse area of London. It describes how the characteristics of superdiversity together with the dynamic between parents/guardians, children, coaches and scouts shape people's perceptions of the ethnic options available to mixed-race young people. I try to show how assertio…
Respectability and boundary making on a superdiverse housing estate: The cross-racial deployment of intra-ethnic stereotypes
This article examines how white British residents of a superdiverse London housing estate learn about-and subsequently deploy-the intra-ethnic stereotypes used by their British Pakistani and British Bangladeshi neighbours/flatmates. Building on recent attempts to bring together conviviality and boundary making, along with insights into intra-ethnic othering, we show how, for white British residents, these stereotypes offered the chance to add det…
Integrated Through Risk: How Actuarial and Epidemiological Approaches to Urban Violence Reduction Interact Within a Multi-Agency Gangs Team
Despite the emergence of multi-agency initiatives that seek to integrate actuarial and epidemiological approaches to urban violence reduction, little work has compared and contrasted these approaches and considered the associated implications for their integration. This article begins addressing this research gap with findings from the first academic analysis of an Integrated Gangs Team (IGT) in the United Kingdom. Drawing on interviews with IGT …
Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (6 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (6 works) · Football (5 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)